[COAT] Canada's Arms Exports to Israel: Aiding & Abetting War Crimes

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Canadian Military Exports to Israel: 
Aiding & Abetting War Crimes in Gaza
(2008-2009)

The Ottawa-based Coalition to Oppose the Arms
Trade (COAT) has just released an online
report containing ten detailed tables of data about Canadian military
companies with direct or indirect export links to Israel:
Canadian
Military Exports to Israel: Aiding and Abetting War Crimes in Gaza
(2008-2009)
(Click above for an annotated list linking to the
report's ten data tables, or use the quick links provided
below.)

Summary Article  (This article sums up
the issues in COAT's report.) 
"Canadian
Military Exports, War Crimes in Gaza and Ottawa's Arms
Bazaar"

CANSEC and CADSI
COAT's report is part of a campaign to oppose CANSEC, Canada's
top military industry trade show. CANSEC 2009 is organized by the
Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries
(CADSI). In an apparent conflict of interest,
the federal
government handed over $200,000 in grants to this arms industry lobby
group, between 2006 and 2008.  These "contributions" were
explicitly to support CADSI's "international trade,"
"export marketing" and "international business development
activities." 
     CADSI's CANSEC arms bazaar -- a closed, private
event -- will be hosted by the City of Ottawa at its prime
publicly-funded facility, Lansdowne Park, May 27-28, 2009. 
     COAT's report on Canadian military exports to
Israel exposes details about more than 100 corporate members of CADSI
that have export links to Israel. Many of these exporters will be
exhibiting their wares at CANSEC this spring to potential buyers from
many Ottawa embassies.

Stop Ottawa
Arms Shows CAMPAIGN:   Please join us in exposing and
opposing the CANSEC arms bazaar!
In 1989, in response to
COAT's first campaign,
the City Ottawa banned ALL
arms shows from municipal property. But now they're coming back! This
May is the 20th anniversary of COAT's mass rally -- led by former Mayor
Marion
Dewar -- when many thousands took to Ottawa's streets to peacefully
protest against the ARMX weapons bazaar at Lansdowne Park.
Sign Petition
Online,  Print
the Petition, 
Attend Upcoming
Events, 

Letter from Ottawa Presbytery of the United Church, 
Contact City Council
& Mayor

Quick Links to Data Tables in COAT's Report on Canada's
Military Exports to Israel
Table 1:  

Master Table:
CADSI
CADSI members, current or former, with Direct or
Indirect Export Links to Israel

Table 2a:  
F-15
"Eagle" Tactical Fighter/Bomber 
Canadian War Industries supplying Parts and/or
Services to the USA for the F-15 (a major Weapons System used by
Israel)

Table 2b:  
F-16
"Fighting Falcon"  Fighter/Bomber
Canadian War Industries supplying Parts and/or
Services to the USA for the F-16 (a major Weapons System used by
Israel)

Table 2c: 
AH-64
"Apache" Helicopter Gunship
Canadian War Industries supplying Parts and/or
Services to the USA for the AH-64 (a major Weapons System used by
Israel)

Table 2d:  
F-15,
F-16 and AH-64 
Canadian War Industries Supplying Parts and/or Services for
three Major US Weapons Systems used by Israel

Table 3:  

Canada Pension Plan Investments in Weapons Makers
CPP Investments (2003-2008) in Prime Contractors for three
Major US Weapons systems used by Israel against Lebanon (2006) and Gaza
(2008-2009)

Table 4a: 

Direct Exports: CADSI members 
Exports to Israel by Canadian military companies that are
corporate members, current or former, of CADSI.

Table 4b: 

Direct Exports: non-CADSI 
Canadian Exports to Israel by Military Companies that are NOT
linked to CADSI.

Table 5a:  

Actively Pursuing Exports: CADSI
members
Canadian military companies that are current or past
members of CADSI reporting that they are "actively pursuing"
exports to Israel.

Table 5b:  

Actively Pursuing
Exports:
non-CADSI
Canadian Military companies "actively pursuing"
exports to Israel that are not current or past members of
CADSI.

Events
If you are in Ottawa, we hope to see you at some upcoming
events:

(1)  Information and Strategy
Session to Oppose CANSEC
      Tuesday, March 24,
7 pm
      Southminster United Church, 
       15 Aylmer Ave at Bank Street. 
       (Just south of the Rideau
Canal.  Enter from the Galt St. entrance at the back of the
complex.)

(2)  Rally to Expose and Oppose
CANSEC
    
Speakers, Music and Candlelight Vigil 
     Wednesday, May 27 (evening - exact
time to be announced)
     Southminster United Church (see address
above)
     Speakers and Music in the church sanctuary
will be followed by a Candlelight Procession just across the Bank St.
bridge to Lansdowne Park, the site of CANSEC. 

(3)  
Documentary - OTTAWA PREMIERE
MYTH FOR PROFIT:  CANADA'S ROLE IN INDUSTRIES OF WAR
AND PEACE  

             
Hintonburg Community Centre
Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 7 pm
1064 Wellington Street (3 blocks west of Somerset)
More info and a
trailer  The documentary will be followed by a discussion with
the film makers, Amy Miller and Boban Chaldovich, who are on a whirlwind

Cross Canada Tour in March and April.  Click
here to
find a film showing near you.
Note: One of the people interviewed in the above documentary is
Richard Sanders, coordinator of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
(COAT), editor of COAT's magazine Press for Conversion! and author
of COAT's report entitled
Canadian Military
Exports to Israel: Aiding and Abetting War Crimes in Gaza
(2008-2009). 


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